A Year with Rumi (edit title/settings)

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• Solomon: Add a description of this character.
• Joseph
• Mary
• Rumi

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• “Dance, when you're broken open /Dance, if you've torn the bandage off /Dance in the middle of the fighting /Dance in your blood /Dance, when you are perfectly free.”

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• Never think that you are worthless. God has paid an enormous amount for you, and the gifts keep arriving.

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• So whatever keeps the soul from moving along (motion and shapeshifting are great nourishers of soul), whatever keeps it from traveling, from expanding and deepening in love, and living the truth of expressing that, those are the “insults” we need to be alert for.

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• Galway Kinnell’s “Prayer”: Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that.

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• And the sermon is never long, So instead of getting to Heaven, at last— I’m going, all along.

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• Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there.

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• Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

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• Jelaluddin Chelabi, head of the Mevlevi order of dervishes (the ones descended from Rumi), once asked me, What religion are you? I gave him the arms-open, palms-up who-knows gesture. Good, he said. Love is the religion, and the universe is the book.

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• The world is so amazingly interesting, I want to be completely here for its moment. That longing is the truth I try to follow, rather than a religion’s iconography.

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• This now is it. Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by this moment’s energy here in your hand.

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• They glow as the facts of the world surface. I have found in my experience that good scientists and good mystics are natural friends, good carpenters too. Chefs and surgeons, historians, athletes, all so full of wonder, lovingly careful, and living right at the point of contact, the nailhead of attention and spontaneity.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Rumi (Author)
2. Coleman Barks (Author)

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• Dewey: 891.5511

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• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Islam › Sufism
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Spirituality › Meditations
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Inspirational & Religious